City Scapes
Visual artist Amie Siegel’s video piece Provenance expounds on this unspoken happening within the contemporary commodities market. Through video, Amie traces the movement of a physical commodity examining, in reverse order, how furnishture from Chandigarh’s Le Corbusier designed by Pierre Jeanneret is reintroduced into the lexicon of high design in the west, removing it from its origin, the place of which it was designed. This reflexive feature connects to and circles right back into the fetishization of foreign place, placing in clear focus the collision of ‘origin’ and authority.